Recent content by shruley

Thanks. We have 2 females (no room for babies!) Our daughter loves fish and has been so happy since we brought them home. Before we got the fish we had asked some friend for some gravel, etc. to help establish the filter but he told us not to bother to just go and get some fish and see if...

Thanks I will reduce the amount of food (again) they get. We had been trying not to overfeed, but I know we really were in the beginning! Will also continue with the small water changes. I do understand the cycle....I just kept thinking that the cycling should be going faster and that I was...

We have two platies...we don't plan to add any more. Our filter is a BIO-wheel that came with the Eclipse aquarium, says it has "total three-stage filtration - the same high-efficiency filtration employed in our much larger aquatic systems. And the Eclipse Hex 5 has Marineland's patented...

Sorry, yes we have an Eclipse tank (I think that was the name?) It came with a filter that is always running....

We just got out first fish tank. Due to space, we got a small 5 gallon tank with the intention of just keeping one or two platies in it. I was going to do the fishless-cycling but on the advice of the pet store (and a friend with several aquariums) decided to just get the fish and go. Well...